Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music .
2 Patrick knew enough about improvised timing devices to be sure that after fifty-five seconds it would complete an electric circuit and fire the mortar bomb .
3 So , I suppose one of them , right , we can make mature , so if you 'd like to put your handset by the side of your phone , do n't put it down , we 'll let that one mature and prove that after 75 seconds we ca n't lose them , and with the other one , can we just prove that we can go back to the conversation any time we like .
4 It is common for the gearchange to be stiff , but after 3000 miles I would have expected the ‘ newness ’ to have bedded in .
5 After 12 months you should have nice young plants nearly ready for moving on to permanent quarters or , if the cuttings are of the rugosa type and intended for rootstocks on to which you are going to bud other varieties , they can be planted out ready for working .
6 As skipper Ian Butterworth said : ‘ If we had been top after six games you could have called it lucky — but not after 17 matches .
7 After six months you would only get half your salary so this would then go down to fifteen thousand .
8 for the first thirteen weeks of unemployment people are allowed to look for jobs that they want to do or are skilled or experienced to do but after thirteen weeks they will be compelled to take any job that comes along .
9 After twenty-eight days they would be taken out , washed and packed in hogsheads , and pressed for about ten days .
10 But we we agree that after three weeks we should be should have completed it .
11 Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on .
12 After three months they would be entitled to the statutory minimum wage in Germany , but this would still be less than the wages taken home by Germans working on the same site .
13 I intend to start with the Dwarf Angel , and after three months I will put in a very young Regal Tang , which I would keep until it is three inches long .
14 Similarly , in medieval Europe , it was ‘ common sense ’ that one could determine the guilt or innocence of an accused person through ‘ trial by ordeal ’ , e.g. accused people carried a red-hot iron bar for ten paces , and if their wounds were healed after x days they would be declared innocent — again , this method is noticeably absent in modern trials !
15 After 5 years you will receive :
16 However , after 3 months we should be looking for positive indications from the policyholder 's medical attendant with regard to a date for returning to work i.e. issue a PAC 8 .
17 After twenty-five years we can indeed see much response to Dei Verbum , but it is still limited .
18 After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass .
19 Then after four months I will have a long holiday . ’
20 After two kilometres you will cross a bridge and see a large ilex tree on your right .
21 After two days it would be easy enough to extricate herself .
22 I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going .
23 Even if the racket stays in the cupboard for six months it will still need a restring — the strings will have stretched and gone ‘ dead ’ .
24 Studying the sky at any given moment through 360 degrees I can see all sorts of colours , tonal changes and different cloud formations .
25 Thus , with a group of 32 children you 'll have eight evenly balanced groups of four .
26 A good feature of the Solution is that it offers flexibility in the depth of the decompression range , so that for an indicated ceiling of three metres it will accept that you are in the correct range if you are between nine and three metres depth .
27 This can be restored by collecting litter , but even on the fastest of three levels it should n't be a problem .
28 From a volume of 1–3 litres it will provide significant amounts of peptides , antibiotics , tannins , plant extracts , flavanoids and other natural or synthetic products .
29 Dr O'Sullivan , who lives in Chester , has built up a collection of 1,700 cartoons he can use as part of his occupational health treatment .
30 For this recession to equal the previous record of 16 months it would have to drag on for another six months .
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